In the men categories there were more to chose. After all this is a machista country where women are only allowed to serve, "cachifas" one may say with the intended prejudice, for the ones inside chavismo.

We could consider Antonio Ledezma who is man of the year for flame thrower magazine Zeta. But if resisting in this country is enough of a feat it is not enough for VN&V to get the coveted award.

Maduro cannot get the award because I would have to to acknowledge the tie with Cabello, as their pas de deux has been the political true motor of the year. Which discards even Chavez who dead managed to steal one election in April and win another one in December. Awards go to the living in this blog. Others within chavismo could compete like Giordani who is about to get his dream of transforming Venezuela into a communist mis-economy.

Capriles had good merits to be man of the year. He was a shoo in on April 15 and he has been going down ever since. Simply stated, when you yourself destroy the capital you earned in the same calendar year, well, you cannot win the man of the year award, no matter how much self sacrifice you offered. And along him, we lost self disqualified interesting options like Aveledo.

Thus, regardless of my sympathies for his cause, I think it is fair to see Leopoldo Lopez as the political man of the year because he survived like Ledezma, he did not flounder like Capriles, and he built for the future which people like Machado or Maduro have yet to do. And of course, an unusual politician for Venezuela deserves republishing an unusual picture.

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